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The Ramsay Murray Lecture 2015

Description:
...given by Bridget Kendall. Selwyn College Cambridge presents the annual Ramsay Murray Lecture on the subject of modern day Russia under the Presidency of Vladimir Putin and given by the BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, Bridget Kendall

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The Sunday Show - American Professor Uncovers Nature Of Modern Civil Uprisings

Description:
Professor Maciej Bartkowski, from The Johns Hopkins University, has been working on a novel approach to non-violent resistance movements – classifying them as ‘hard power’ and not ‘soft.’ His reasoning is that after analyzing over 300 non-violent movements he and his colleagues have determined that they were able to successfully challenge the regime 53% of the time. Violent resistance campaigns were successful in 26% of cases. In this way, non-violent campaigns can and should be viewed as very legitimate challenges to authoritarian regimes.

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Vik Muniz, Lampedusa teaser. YouTube. Created for Venice Biennale 2015 "...Lampedusa is a floating installation to be launched during the 56th Venice Biennale. For this public artwork, Vik Muniz employs his traditional use of unlikely materials and scale manipulation to generate wonder from predictability. Contextualized in the naval environment of Venice, Lampedusa is an effigy of a paper boat built to scale of one of the town’s traditional vaporettos. Boats of all kinds are a common sight in Venice but a forty-five feet paper boat will certainly disrupt the viewers’ impression of being part of a postcard. ..." --VikMuniz.net

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EPA: Adapting to Climate Change

Description:
'"Adaptation" refers to the adjustments that societies or ecosystems make to limit the negative effects of climate change or to take advantage of opportunities provided by a changing climate. Adaptation can range from a farmer planting more drought-resistant crops to a coastal community evaluating how best to protect its infrastructure from rising sea level.' -- from the website, 6/19/2016

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Digital library for Geosciences moves to NCAR

Description:
The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE), developed with funding from the Geosciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will continue to serve hundreds of thousands of K12 educators and learners around the country from its new home at NCAR.

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Climate and Global Dynamics

Description:
CGD's mission is to discover the key processes in each component of the Earth's climate system and the interactions among them; represent this understanding in models and thereby provide a basis for prediction of climate; and apply this understanding and these models to scientific problems of societal relevance.

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Atmospheric Chemistry and Observations Modeling (ACOM)

Description:
ACOM’s research focuses on advancing understanding and predictive capability for atmospheric composition and related processes. Research is organized around two major themes – Air Quality Prediction and Weather-Chemistry-Climate Interactions – and includes for example, a focus on issues related to the interaction of anthropogenic and biogenic chemical emissions, the effects of wildfires on air quality, and the impacts of upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UT/LS) and middle atmosphere composition on climate. The synthesis of observations with atmospheric chemistry models is central to progress, with a focus on understanding and modeling fundamental processes. ACOM scientists work closely with the wider research community, providing intellectual leadership and facility support for measurement capabilities, laboratory and field experiments and community atmospheric chemistry models.